Across
- 1. What farming was and how you grow crops, during the Gilded Age this took a hit and farmers were going into debt
- 4. Historian who gave the Gilded Age its name by his novel
- 5. The "ordinary" people wanting their voices to be heard and they wanted to stop being disregarded
- 7. This is a main point in why the Gilded age came to an end, people's focus shifted to the war
- 10. Where corruption was at its peak and this was when the economy was growing and industrialization started to become better
- 11. A main point in how the Gilded Age began, business owners and politicians wanted to make more money
- 13. 20th U.S President who tried to stop corruption
- 14. Time period of the Gilded Age
- 15. This was a major place where Corruption and political machines occured (although there were also many other states where corruption occured)
Down
- 2. People in high power being dishonest and fraudulent
- 3. A way the lower class people worked, these group of people went into debt due to crops/prices taking a decline
- 6. Boss of Tammany Hall, he was an American politician who was corrupt
- 8. A way of transportation of people and goods, this caused crops prices to decline due to transportation prices
- 9. Where people in power recruited members in corrupt ways to stay in power
- 12. Political Organization where political machines mainly occurred, William Tweed was the boss of the group